How well has Raiders GM Mike Mayock evaluated safeties?

How well has Raiders GM Mike Mayock evaluated safeties?

One of the great things about the Raiders hiring former NFL Network star Mike Mayock is that we have access to all of his player rankings since the 2006 NFL Draft. With all of that information, we may be able to find trends and make educated guesses throughout the draft process as to who Mayock may like, but also, what positions he knows bests.

While we have all offseason to run through the tape and his draft boards, this piece is going to be a little less comprehensive. Instead, this simply a list of Mayock’s “top five” for each draft class since 2008.

In the first several parts of this series, we reviewed all of Mayock’s rankings on the offensive side of the ball. Today, we are looking at how well Mayock has done grading safeties. Here is the full list of safety rankings since 2008, via the NFL.com archives: